Bruchiaceae

Diagnosis: Plants scattered, yellow-green, terricolous, 3-5 mm long. Leaves evenly spaced, flexuose-spreading when wet, clasping, oblong to oblong-ovate at base, gradually long linear-subulate above, 2-3 mm long; margins weakly recurved above, entire below, weakly denticulate by blunt teeth above; costa percurrent; upper cells short-rectangular, walls firm and thickened; basal cells laxly oblong-rhomboidal to long-rectangular. Setae 10-15 mm long, smooth; capsules inclined, urn ellipsoidal, 1.5-2 mm long, neck 3-4 mm long; annuli deciduous, revoluable; peristome teeth red, lanceolate, vertically striate. Spores subreniform, densely papillose or minutely warty, 20-23 µm diameter.

Distribution: cosmopolitan

Ecology: On damp sand or clay, 20-1500 m

Type Citation: Flora Boreali-Americana 2: 289. 1803

Type Locality: U.S.A. "In arenosis Carolinae." Michaux

Other Published Figures: Sharp et al. 1994, Moss Flora of Mexico, fig. 63a-c; H. Crum & L. Anderson, 1981. Moss of Eastern North America. fig. 67H-L;